Touching Grief, Touching Earth
A Solstice Retreat
This five-day retreat is an exploration of the apprenticeship of grief — learning how to turn towards what is difficult, rather than away from it; learning how to be shaped by not-knowing, restraint and humility as acts of reverence.
Touching the Earth at Solstice with Jaime Howell and Team
A 6-day solstice retreat of embodied ecological awakening through Touching the Earth practices, weaving wilderness rites-of-passage, movement inquiry and soul-level belonging as we discover our unique gift for the Great Turning of our times.
Touching the Earth
June Solstice Retreat
A nature-based soul initiation retreat for the Great Turning—leave the village, enter the forest, return with your unique gift through movement, yoga, meditation and dreamwork in service to Life. Bill Plotkin & Joanna Macy inspired.
Young Adults Retreat 2023
Young Adults Retreat 2023 invites 18-35s to learn meditation's craft while embracing the four postures—sitting, standing, walking, lying—bridging formal practice and daily life. Subsidised by work exchange and generous dana, silence, guidance and camping await at Wangapeka Study Centre.
Touching the Earth
June Solstice Retreat
A nature-based soul initiation retreat for human wholeness inspired by Plotkin & Macy, weaving movement, meditation, dreamwork and song to discover your unique offering in service to the Great Turning from Industrial Growth to Life Sustaining society.
Young Adults Retreat 2022
Finding stillness in a busy world
Young adults (18-35) gather at Wangapeka to learn meditation through breathing practice, nature connection, art and conscious movement in the spirit of dana. Surrounded by wilderness, we cultivate inner wisdom amidst silence and shared exploration, building connections across Aotearoa.
ReWild – Wilderness Meditation Retreat
New Dates
A 5-day wilderness meditation retreat guiding us to rewild into wholeness—learning to rest in the natural state of belonging while integrating meditation's gifts into our messy relational lives, supported by community practice and nature.
Touching The Earth
An Invitation Into Wholeness
A soul-aligned solstice retreat weaving Joanna Macy's Great Turning with Bill Plotkin's wild mind work, using Touching the Earth practice to embody our multifaceted wholeness, serve the Earth community, and transform pain into creative acts of inter-being through meditation, movement, and nature-based ritual.
Bodhi Seeds Retreat 2021
Awakening Through Our True Nature
Awakening through true nature in Wanagepeka's mountains - a Vipassana/Samatha retreat weaving gentleness, body work and noble silence. Guided by Bill Plotkin, Macy and Tarchin's teachings, we'll cultivate unshakable presence amid arising and glimpse our belonging through embodied spacious awareness.
Bodhi Seeds Retreat 2020
7 days at the Wangapeka
7-day Bodhi Seeds Retreat for young adults: cultivating unshakably present awareness as medicine for our collapsing world, weaving Vipassana/Samatha with gentleness, body work and the Great Turning at ancient Wangapeka.
Growing Joy
Cultivating Joyful Awareness (online)
Growing Joy – an online three-day weaving of guided meditation and wild Open Floor movement, ritual, song and story to deepen kind awareness, nurture inclusive community, and let joy become medicine for the Great Turning.
YAR 2019
Time to Pause
YAR 2019 invites young adults 18-35 to pause from exhaustion and planetary anger and tap into ancient and contemporary contemplative wisdom. Supported by community meditation, body-work to calm the nervous system, solitude and creative dance at the Wangapeka Centre.
Belonging
a 7-day Open Floor and Meditation Retreat
This 7-day retreat uses Open Floor movement and meditation to rediscover our natural belonging - a state of inclusive love within community. Through embodied mindfulness, chanting, and ancestral connection, we transform fragmentation into wholesome change, finding our real teacher closer than we might think.
Mindfulness, Conscious Dance and the Hero’s Journey
Four days of meditation and conscious dance journeying through the hero's myth—learning to live with less fragmentation, finding refuge in body and mind, and awakening sane vibrant community one breath and one movement at a time.
Bodhi Seeds
A low cost retreat opportunity for young people
An organic six-week mindfulness retreat for young beings to explore consciousness through Buddha Dharma, mythology, creative practices and service living communally at low cost with full commitment to ethical living. A safe nurturing space where five more beings aged 18-45 can join this living exploration of what wisdom looks like for a new generation.
Foundations of Mindfulness
A four-day residential retreat at Wangapeka Study Centre introducing mindfulness foundations—charging batteries of self-kindness through body/breathawareness, neurobiology insights, supported group practice & natural environment while reducing distractions.
Young Adults Retreat
Loving and Being Loved
The 2015 Young Adult retreat at Wangapeka explores kindness and compassion through meditation, creative activities, and community contribution. Set in nature, we deepen understanding together through small groups, silence, art, drama, and caring for this sacred land.